Self-powered textile for wearable electronics by hybridizing fiber-shaped nanogenerators, solar cells, and supercapacitors

By Zhen Wen, Min-Hsin Yeh, Hengyu Guo, Jie Wang, Yunlong Zi, Weidong Xu, Jianan Deng, Lei Zhu, Xin Wang, Chenguo Hu and 3 more. Science Advances, 2016

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A hybridized self-powered textile for simultaneously collecting solar energy and random body motion energy was demonstrated. Wearable electronics fabricated on lightweight and flexible substrate are believed to have great potential for portable devices, but their applications are limited by the life span of their batteries. We propose a hybridized self-charging power textile system with the aim of simultaneously collecting outdoor sunshine and random body motion energies and then storing them in an energy storage unit. Both of the harvested energies can be easily converted into electricity by using fiber-shaped dye-sensitized solar cells (for solar energy) and fiber-shaped triboelectric nanogenerators (for random body motion energy) and then further stored as chemical energy in fiber-shaped supercapacitors. Because of the all–fiber-shaped structure of the entire system, our proposed hybridized self-charging textile system can be easily woven into electronic textiles to fabricate smart clothes to sustainably operate mobile or wearable electronics.

Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials, Mechanical Engineering

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